Refrigerant

Quick meaning: Refrigerant is a noun meaning That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.

Meaning

That which makes cool or cold, such as a medicine for allaying the symptoms of fever.

More Meanings

1. A substance used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change between gas and liquid to allow the cooling, as in refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.
2. (obsolete) That cools or freezes; providing relief from heat or fever.

Example Sentences

[He] is robust and can safely take refrigerant food.

Here on a bank, refrigerant seat, Screen’d from the Sun’s o’ercoming heat, Some stretch’d at ease the hours employ, In Bacchus’s unbounded joy,

[…] taking a blue and white soda-powder, [she] mingled the same in water, and encouraged me to drink the result. It might be a specific for seasickness, but it was not for home-sickness. The fiz was a mockery, and the saline refrigerant struck a colder chill to my despondent heart.

1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 2, Lecture 32, p. 403, […] never give warning that you are about to be pathetic; and call upon your hearers, as is sometimes done, to follow you in the attempt. This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to passion.

Word Forms

• refrigerants

Synonyms for refrigerant

Depending on context, synonyms include cold, refrigerating.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cold, refrigerating, refrigeration, chiller, coolant, condenser.

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